Austin and Reese

A couple weekends ago I spent an hour or so with my good friend, Lisa, her husband Joey and their two handsome, vivacious boys, Austin and Reese who I have known since they were babies! We went to Old Town Alexandria for their photos and SOMEHOW the DC July heat spared us of its wrath and we were comfortable doing the shoot. The boys were total champion posers for me! Check them out!

Baby Leah

Meet Leah. Oh, and her mom, Amy, my good friend from my past life doing corporate work for Discovery Channel. This is baby #2 for Amy and Leah's big brother Zach is 3 1/2. He gets to star in front of the camera later this fall for their family shoot so stay tuned. Leah was not exactly in the mood for her first modeling gig when they arrived. After some tears, a good feeding (or 4), and a solid nap, she was ready to go. Thankfully, we were able to 'transfer' (all you mom's know what I'm talking about) her to an advantageous place in front of the camera as you'll see during the nap! I love my babies! Thanks for trekking out here Amy, I had so much fun!

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Visiting my best friend

Summer is nearly over and I can't believe it. Before it's over and before my good friend Paige heads back to the classroom to teach, I headed out to spend a couple days visiting her and her family on the Eastern Shore of MD. I took my boys while my dear husband stayed home and worked. Her 2 kids and mine immediately connected and had a ball together. Our visit was too short but at least we got it in before the madness of back to school and holidays.

Here we all are!

Finley James

I have the pleasure of introducing Master Finn here. I have had such fun editing Finn's photos b/c he is adorable and reminds me so much of his sister at the same age. Finn's mom is a friend of mine and a couple years ago I photographed her daugher around the same age -- 6 weeks old. I was pretty new to shooting newborns but we got some good shots out of that session and I'm trying to top that now with Finn's shoot! I say this with the utmost respect, but Finn's mom chickened out of doing a maternity session, unfortunately, so I don't have pre and post baby photos! **wink, wink** But it's remarkable to me how much Finn looks like his sister at the same age! That Condon gene pool is pretty dominant.

We wore Finn out pretty well that session as you'll see in these images...by the end of our shoot, he was snoozing pretty happily on my couch.

Enjoy! (remember to click on an image to see it larger)

Jerome Austrie - musician extraodinaire!

I had the pleasure (finally after several years of talking about it) of photographing our good family friend, Jerome Austrie, the other day for his new website, in development. He is a musician with whom my husband has known and worked since they were teenagers!!! They met in an airport in New England and just started talking music.

Jerome hails from beautiful Dominica in the Carribbean but has lived in the US for most of his life. He is a gifted musician focusing on gospel and jazz and some reggae. But can sing just about anything. On our shoot, he sang a few times and the people passing us stopped and were blown away. I wish I could post some audio!

But here are some fun shots -- I tried to capture a variety of images utilizing the cool, urban feel of what was around us to the natural setting along the Potomac River.

Suzanne & JP

I am way behind on my postings for my clients! In any event, here are several photos from my last wedding on the infamous 7/7/07 date! Suzanne and JP were terrific to work with and their families were so much fun and easy to be around. Suzanne and JP had some great moments throughout their reception -- their families LOVE to dance so there are a ton of dancing photos and they are hilarious! Also, Suzanne and JP each wore one of their grandparents rings which i photographed along with theirs. I love when my couples have something significant to mark their wedding with a true personal touch.



JP's parents were cutting up the floor!


Here is Suzanne and her dad doing their father/daughter dance to the slow-dance of Kenny Roger's "Through the Years" with a surprise break-out into Billy Idol's "White Wedding". They blew away their guests! It was hilarious!